WebGPU Inspector

WebGPU Inspector Debugging Tools
What is WebGPU Inspector?
"WebGPU Inspector" is a powerful Chrome Developer Tools extension designed for debugging WebGPU content. It intercepts WebGPU objects and commands, enabling users to inspect GPU objects with stack traces, catch shader compilation errors, and live edit shaders. Additionally, it plots frame times and GPU object counts for profiling, captures all WebGPU commands used in rendering, and allows viewing of uniform and storage buffer content. Users can even record render commands to recreate frames in standalone HTML files.

Extension stats

Rating: 5.00 (7)
Version: 0.8.0 (Last updated: 2024-10-14)
Creation date: 2024-02-08
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Size: 258.05K

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Extension summary

WebGPU Inspector is a Chrome Developer Tools extension for debugging WebGPU content. It intercepts all WebGPU objects and commands, allowing you to inspect information about any GPU object.

  • Inspect any WebGPU object, with a stacktrace for where it was created.
  • Catch errors compiling shader modules and pipelines.
  • Display textures,.
  • Edit shaders live on the page to debug and test shader changes.
  • Plot frame times and GPU object counts over time for profiling information.
  • Capture and inspect all WebGPU commands used to render a frame, including the texture results of each render pass.
  • View uniform and storage buffer content used for draw and dispatch calls.
  • Record all commands and data used to render a set of frames, generating a standalone HTML file that can recreate the render.

User reviews

by Austin Southall, 2024-05-25

by Daniel Crookston, 2024-05-07

by Pietro Vismara, 2024-05-06
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Extension safety

Risk impact

WebGPU Inspector requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

WebGPU Inspector has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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